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Chicago examiner thursday Chicago february 29 1912 18 pages thursday vol x no 60 a m reÂ«ljtÂ«re<l in prick onf ffnt dÂ«llverefl by orrlw u s patent offlm 7\.iv-c jiyt k^lz.i i 3a c p _ r month two chicagoans arrested for sh a mason and j a hanley charged with selling property r to which they had no title js i the.arrest yesterday of john e hanley bt director and h a mason secretary and t^ptreaÃŸurer of the yellowstone national land under federal indictments charg h^ng tbem with using the mails for purposes fraud revealed an alleged colossal land iw swindle to dispose of 4,500 acres of land 7^fcln madison county montana which the shfcderal authorities insist the company did j;v(b*ot own a feature of this alleged fraud 7^Â»-hich the postoffice authorities have been for two years is that some gÃŸÂ»f the most prominent men of the state mentioned in connection with it though federal investigators believe they acted s^bnnocently and with no idea they were con bicted with any scheme to defraud hl m fairbanks mentioned 1 k l m fairbanks president of the mans ; held banking company at mansfield 111 sÃŸnd brother of former vice president fair pnks wag vice president of the yellow samtone company colonel j h best whe p____f president of the quincy state'bank at iv^ruincy 111 was.a director of the land 7wa7ompauy the president of the company t o thompson died last december he w'.ie the father-in-law of mason the secre s;7^bary and treasurer who was arrested yes i^herday as he was consulting his attorney 7,_pe gave bonds in 10,000 for his appear hanley who also promptly supplied s_b d<lb ln 10000 formerly was connected iirfy^rth the firm of armour & co the tele b one directory also mentions him as pres 7>gment of the rock island & southern rall jlway system which is a small electric road h lowa hanley has an office in the btonadnock building twvictims number 500 postofflce inspector c n moore who kins had charge of the investigation of the j._byellowstone xntional laud company said si^bthe victims of the company number at s_____p post 50 twenty-five of them are com jshplainants the scheme he bald was to imsell the 4,r>00 acres of land for 60 an acre hto small investors on the installment plan hfor fruit farms the entire tract he said hfi 6,000 feet above sea level and frost in h^kie ground even in july renders it en sgmlrely unfit for anything but grazing land h if this company had carried out its hpltn that 4,500 acifp would have brought total of 270,(000 said inspector moore r%e company was organised in ibeptem b 1009 and it operated only four lonthe taking in only 115,000 in that hme on january 1 1010 the president of these news photographs are a tragic sermon three kaufman slayers in court facing penalty of their reckless debauch john stacey george towhead rabenau william roland channell divorce law attacked as unfair to wife court places her at man's mercy declares untermyer w morgan shuster at suffrage rally new york feb 28 the allowances made by the courts to deserted and be trayed wires are grotesquely ' inadequate the wife is absolutely at the mercy of an unconscionable husband after he has taken the best part of her life he can put the pressure upon her necessary to get rid of her if he wishes to abandon her and re marry she is forqed to choose between comparative poverty and the acceptance of his terms ' . ' ' samuel untermyer the well-known lsw i yer thus denounced the injustice of laws â€¢ that affect women at a big suffrage rally '' to-night in the grand ballroom ot the hotel 1 astor ' w morgan shuster paid a glowing tribute ; to the persian women declarlng.lt was due 1 to their work largely that persia was able ' to shake off 1.800 years of monarchy ' i never saw the faces of these veiled ; women nor did i ever learn the name of â€¢ their big strong organization but i know 1 the work accomplished he said ' . mai eastman secretary of the men's suffrage league attacked president roose velt's recent editorial on suffrage the only difference between it and one of emma â€¢ goldman's was that the latter goes a little further in the same direc tion be said dr anna shaw dorothy dli and beat â– rice forbes-robertson spoke in answer to the appeal for a wisconsin campaign fund of 2,700 the entire sum was raised rev richeson is dying boston feb 28 clarence v t rlche son former pastor and confessed slayer of avis linnell will not live to meet death in the electric chair three months hence according to the statements of his keeper at the charles street jail physical ly he is but a shadow of his former self and mentally he is a victim of melancholia he seldom sleeps and eats little eleven women are trapped by flames firemen make daring rescues as blaze sweeps up a wooden stairway eleven women trapped in a blazing room on the tâ€žp floor of a four-story flat build ing at 3449 indiana avenue were rescued by firemen last night after the fire bad reached such dangerous proportions that a 4-11 alaim was tmned in the fire was discovered a few minutes before midnight and , by the time the first detachment of firemen reached the scene the . fire had gained such headway that a 2-11 alarm whs turned in even with the re-enforcements the fire â€¢ men conld not cope with the blaze and the : flames licked up from the ground floor where the fire was discovered to ttie top floor following the rear stairway which was of wood the women at the top of the building were forgotten until a man rushed through the crowd shrieking that the women had not escaped even the nine engine companies called out by the 4-li alarm were found unequal to the task of checking the flames and marshal seyferlleh and deputy marshal tom connors sent out a special call for three additional eug'nel fighting their way through torrents of smoke and flame members of truck 11 made their way to the besieged women and carried them to safety mr and mrs westnick who shared the apartments of mr and mrs robert ellis on the third floor were aroused by the flames and started for the street mrs westnick had gone only a few steps ln the smoke-filled hall when she was over come and her husband was obliged to i carry her down the two flights and into | the street others imperiled by the flames were , mr and mrs francis mr and mrs ben son mr and mrs allison mr and mrs robert bills mr and mrs spencer mr and mrs baxter all made their escape to the street or were carried out by firemen in time to save their lives the building wns an unnsnally long one filling almost the entire lot which runs half way from indiana ro calumet ave nue starting at the rear on the ground floor the fire ate its way rapidly upward and forward and half an hour from the time of the first alarm both front and rear were blazing fiercely damage te the property which belongs to dr c v ! ward was estimated at 15,000 which i will be increased considerably by the i losses ef tenants aged 84 20th birthday st paul minn feb 28 governor eb erhart sent a letter of congratulation to night to mrs rose schmahl of duluth survivor of the sioux indian massacre of 18*33 and mother of julius a scfasahl sec retary of state the woman celeahotes to | morrow her twentieth birthday l^ajahtf fotir years st e was born in liarnfl 1,000,000 miners to go on strike to-day all efforts to avert walkout in english collieries now seem futile special cable lo the examiner london feb 28 unless the totally un expected and apparently impossible hap pens within the next twenty-four hours the threatened general coal strike will be de clared officially to-morrow and as the london times expresses it england will be facing the greatest crisis since the days of the spanish nrmada to-night there seems little hope for peace already 130,000 men areon strike and by to-morrow night over a million will have ceased work t the unexpected and apparently impos sible that must happen to prevent the na tional strike is that the miners representa tives shall accept the government pro posals made to-day recognizing the prin ciple of a minimum wage and that the adjustment of wages shall be made in the various districts by joint commissions com posed of miners owners and government representatives proposals once rejected the hopelessness of the situation lies in the fact that the miners representatives have already rejected these proposals al though 60 per cent of the owners agreed to them the foregoing was the situation as it ex isted to-night after eleven conferences be tween the men and the owners and govern ment mediators later premier asquith had a long conference with the king although all the mines ln great britain will be idle to-morrow one gleam of hope is that both sides have promised to meet again ln ' the morning and afterward to hpld themselves in readiness to meet the prime minister army is mobilized so far there have been no disturbances and leaders everywhere from somerset to fife have issued strict orders against rioting but an army is already mobilised at points where trouble is most likely to occur while scotland yard ls taking every precaution to see tbat business is not in terfered with in london the inevitable paralysis of industry is already making it self felt many concerns having given no tice that tbey cannot keep open long after the strike ls on aurora plans city mart _ aurora 111 feb 28,-a pitblle elty manket will be established i aurora april 3 a ordinance making the market a fla ture will he passed at th regular meei - tag of the city ceunnll meaday evening the mart js to'be w river street ene bf t the principal business thereughfores ilun - dreds 'â€¢Â» farmers are expected to take ad " vantage o the market a pubhe fterse _ market ip be centralled fey lie pity ga s r a geissler german consul under knife rushed to hospital for appendicitis operation little hope of recovery alfred geissler imperial geruiau consul in Chicago was operated ou for acute ap pendicitis . at midnight inst night . four hours after he is violently seized in his home 23 barry avenue mr geissler is said to be in j critical condition litlle hope being entertained for his recovery the attack last night was the return of au affliction that had been thought cured months ago mr geissler had prepared to retire when he was seized dr zim merman 543 grant place was hastily sum moned after making a cursory examination dr zimmerman decided that an immediate op eration was necessary to save the life of mr geissler a private ambulance was summoned and mr geissler was taken to the hospital the operation was per formed by dr zimmerman and dr peter letz of the hospital staff v_j ship babies defy police strikers may disobey authorities orders says haywood lawrence mass feb 28 william d haywood who 1b in charge of the tex tile strike to-night issued an ultimatum to the authorities in which he declared it was imperative thet the children of the idle . workmen be seat out of lawrence to those who are willing to care for them and that if necessary the children will be exported in defiance of the police one hundred of the children will be sent to philadelphia saturday and another dele gation will go to washington friday un der the auspices of representative ber ger miss sears at it again startles san mateo by riding bicycle astride sas francisco feb 28 after pass ing one ot her customary strenuous days miss eleanor bears of boston provided a sartorial surprise for the sedate townfolk of ban mateo by appearing with mrs oscar cooper each astride a bicycle miss sears and mrs cooper were dressed to match in top boots checkered blouser ettes sma.ll riding bote and gray coats this morning found miss bears up et 0 o'clock walking from the t'nrelitn homo to the b-rllngama station and back again a goad four miles n y nurses raise rates , thirty-five dollars a week en all 1 cases now jf_w souk feb 28 1t will cost mere , to be oa the sick list in xew york te , marrow than it did te-day the taa on the [ arrival of the stork will also be mere ex - pensive than ever before in all eases it will cost 35 a week for the services of a trained nurse and it is all blamed on the - high cost of living all the trained nuratm â€¢ in new york bave agreed that in future j thej weuw mÂ»ntl is per dajs kaufman slayers in tears plead with jury women on stand try to save bandits . rabenau swears screams of slain woman frightened him into firing shot blames channel for troubles sobs of prisoners babies add to pathos of court scenes lawyers give up hopes of saving two of accused men such was the pathos and dramatic force of the stories told on the stand in judge kersten's court yesterday by members of the band of automobile robbers who tilled mrs hattie kaufman in front ot her home 665 roscoe street on the night of decem ber 2 . that tears ran down scores of cheeks fred bone_am one of the quartet of young banditti who ls scorned by his com rades bemuse he pleaded guilty alone eat dry-eyed while the other three defendants one after the other walked crlngingly to the witness chair and white avowing their share ln the bandit ride in the stolen auto mobile with its tragic ending wept bitter ly as they told of the shooting down of the young wife at her husband's side â€¢ william roland channell thin faced weak voiced who was graduated from a hip school ana started life as a bank clerk george towhead rabenau sturdy evil looking who admits he fired the fatal stint a-nd john ataoey eldest of the four though himself only twenty-three yearb of age and who was married only a few weeks before the crime each re sorted to tears in his effort to reach the sympathies of the jurors and to save his neck if possible from the hangman's noose girls testify for channell channell brought his mother and two girl sweethearts to court and each of them testified ln his favor and shed tears ra benau nnd btacey had their wives and the former had his young children seated within a few faat of the jury box and their outbursts of emotto-a at timet were heartrending mrs mary bman nnd mrs matilda &-â€¢ mussen mothers of the girl sweethearts of channell took the stand and told with voices that taoke path-llrally what a good young man channel win by na ture and low sorry they were that tbey had refused to let their daughters go out with him in the stolen automobile when if they had accepted bis in-fltatton tho tragedy wonld not bave happened edmund kaufman the widow who as neve_^^^red from thflr h0 4 : ih^enau^plea i to the jury Â§ 1441 told this mr kaufman jj / a there to hold up his hand r i he did so and we would have v ) taken his money without any s ( trouble or harm to him but mrs e ! i kaufman screamed i fired the gun f i t make them run i give you my yj i word gentleman if it was the g last word i ever spoke i wouldn't c have killed that woman if i could fi have helped it i'm a married jj man with children myself when m i found out next morning that the v poor lady was dead i felt awful q bad suffered when the bandits held him ap a%k with his wife on his arm he approached his home and shot her dead before ben realized that she was in danger eat brooew ing in the courtroom with his eyes fiaawl on each witness time and again thes words that fell from one of the oonfesscoft bandits as he sat in the witness e seemed to bring to tho stricken lasoater si keener sense of his tiaÃŸlc loss aad tsf : cmtld not restrain his team verdict is expected to-morrow j the defendants counsel say that au then hope is to move the jury to consider pleas in mitigation of the guilt of two or more of the prisoners the evidence for the defense will be completed to-day and a verdict is expected to-morrow channell on the stand admitted that h stole the automobile from cottage grove avenue and twenty-eighth street there lt had been left standing by iu owner albert michaels he intended to take irva small and ethel magnomen out rill ing in the car but their mothers would not allow the young girls to go out then he got rabennu btacey and boneham to go riding with him he knew they had revolvers and lt was understood that robbery should be done if chance offered channell protests innocence i had so hand in shooting mrs kauf man channell cried raising his right hand and turning his eyes up to the ceil ing i ewear i was in the car all the time i did mt know that the oftwt ace had held up lit and mm ksufman all i beard was a shot from the revolver the rabenau staeey and bonehssn got into tse>t machine and we drove to to south bide it was not until the next day that i knew mrs kaufman was killed towhead rabenau who said be k*4 just twenty-one yeara aid t 1 * t*c_^b _Â» speech rt th jury^j . l gjmsontlnue en 2nd page srrt lurnn j f Chicago and vicintt , wiÂ»\p and colder thursday fridaywa_7 with slowly rising temperature Â» . crate northwesterly winds rt q uange of temperatures yesterday / mt high .- f stenographers quick accurate tidy well grounded lo spelling grammar punctuation ; operators whose letters don't hate to be re written whe attend ta your work and not ta wbat is gains on outside don't have te be cautioned twice against the same mistake make careful notes vt calls and telephone messages da not mind a little work overtime in the rush season efficient stenographers including these who serve the general public make themselves kÃŸowa in the Chicago examiner want ad pages 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Chicago examiner thursday Chicago february 29 1912 18 pages thursday vol x no 60 a m reÂ«ljtÂ«regment of the rock island & southern rall jlway system which is a small electric road h lowa hanley has an office in the btonadnock building twvictims number 500 postofflce inspector c n moore who kins had charge of the investigation of the j._byellowstone xntional laud company said si^bthe victims of the company number at s_____p post 50 twenty-five of them are com jshplainants the scheme he bald was to imsell the 4,r>00 acres of land for 60 an acre hto small investors on the installment plan hfor fruit farms the entire tract he said hfi 6,000 feet above sea level and frost in h^kie ground even in july renders it en sgmlrely unfit for anything but grazing land h if this company had carried out its hpltn that 4,500 acifp would have brought total of 270,(000 said inspector moore r%e company was organised in ibeptem b 1009 and it operated only four lonthe taking in only 115,000 in that hme on january 1 1010 the president of these news photographs are a tragic sermon three kaufman slayers in court facing penalty of their reckless debauch john stacey george towhead rabenau william roland channell divorce law attacked as unfair to wife court places her at man's mercy declares untermyer w morgan shuster at suffrage rally new york feb 28 the allowances made by the courts to deserted and be trayed wires are grotesquely ' inadequate the wife is absolutely at the mercy of an unconscionable husband after he has taken the best part of her life he can put the pressure upon her necessary to get rid of her if he wishes to abandon her and re marry she is forqed to choose between comparative poverty and the acceptance of his terms ' . ' ' samuel untermyer the well-known lsw i yer thus denounced the injustice of laws â€¢ that affect women at a big suffrage rally '' to-night in the grand ballroom ot the hotel 1 astor ' w morgan shuster paid a glowing tribute ; to the persian women declarlng.lt was due 1 to their work largely that persia was able ' to shake off 1.800 years of monarchy ' i never saw the faces of these veiled ; women nor did i ever learn the name of â€¢ their big strong organization but i know 1 the work accomplished he said ' . mai eastman secretary of the men's suffrage league attacked president roose velt's recent editorial on suffrage the only difference between it and one of emma â€¢ goldman's was that the latter goes a little further in the same direc tion be said dr anna shaw dorothy dli and beat â– rice forbes-robertson spoke in answer to the appeal for a wisconsin campaign fund of 2,700 the entire sum was raised rev richeson is dying boston feb 28 clarence v t rlche son former pastor and confessed slayer of avis linnell will not live to meet death in the electric chair three months hence according to the statements of his keeper at the charles street jail physical ly he is but a shadow of his former self and mentally he is a victim of melancholia he seldom sleeps and eats little eleven women are trapped by flames firemen make daring rescues as blaze sweeps up a wooden stairway eleven women trapped in a blazing room on the tâ€žp floor of a four-story flat build ing at 3449 indiana avenue were rescued by firemen last night after the fire bad reached such dangerous proportions that a 4-11 alaim was tmned in the fire was discovered a few minutes before midnight and , by the time the first detachment of firemen reached the scene the . fire had gained such headway that a 2-11 alarm whs turned in even with the re-enforcements the fire â€¢ men conld not cope with the blaze and the : flames licked up from the ground floor where the fire was discovered to ttie top floor following the rear stairway which was of wood the women at the top of the building were forgotten until a man rushed through the crowd shrieking that the women had not escaped even the nine engine companies called out by the 4-li alarm were found unequal to the task of checking the flames and marshal seyferlleh and deputy marshal tom connors sent out a special call for three additional eug'nel fighting their way through torrents of smoke and flame members of truck 11 made their way to the besieged women and carried them to safety mr and mrs westnick who shared the apartments of mr and mrs robert ellis on the third floor were aroused by the flames and started for the street mrs westnick had gone only a few steps ln the smoke-filled hall when she was over come and her husband was obliged to i carry her down the two flights and into | the street others imperiled by the flames were , mr and mrs francis mr and mrs ben son mr and mrs allison mr and mrs robert bills mr and mrs spencer mr and mrs baxter all made their escape to the street or were carried out by firemen in time to save their lives the building wns an unnsnally long one filling almost the entire lot which runs half way from indiana ro calumet ave nue starting at the rear on the ground floor the fire ate its way rapidly upward and forward and half an hour from the time of the first alarm both front and rear were blazing fiercely damage te the property which belongs to dr c v ! ward was estimated at 15,000 which i will be increased considerably by the i losses ef tenants aged 84 20th birthday st paul minn feb 28 governor eb erhart sent a letter of congratulation to night to mrs rose schmahl of duluth survivor of the sioux indian massacre of 18*33 and mother of julius a scfasahl sec retary of state the woman celeahotes to | morrow her twentieth birthday l^ajahtf fotir years st e was born in liarnfl 1,000,000 miners to go on strike to-day all efforts to avert walkout in english collieries now seem futile special cable lo the examiner london feb 28 unless the totally un expected and apparently impossible hap pens within the next twenty-four hours the threatened general coal strike will be de clared officially to-morrow and as the london times expresses it england will be facing the greatest crisis since the days of the spanish nrmada to-night there seems little hope for peace already 130,000 men areon strike and by to-morrow night over a million will have ceased work t the unexpected and apparently impos sible that must happen to prevent the na tional strike is that the miners representa tives shall accept the government pro posals made to-day recognizing the prin ciple of a minimum wage and that the adjustment of wages shall be made in the various districts by joint commissions com posed of miners owners and government representatives proposals once rejected the hopelessness of the situation lies in the fact that the miners representatives have already rejected these proposals al though 60 per cent of the owners agreed to them the foregoing was the situation as it ex isted to-night after eleven conferences be tween the men and the owners and govern ment mediators later premier asquith had a long conference with the king although all the mines ln great britain will be idle to-morrow one gleam of hope is that both sides have promised to meet again ln ' the morning and afterward to hpld themselves in readiness to meet the prime minister army is mobilized so far there have been no disturbances and leaders everywhere from somerset to fife have issued strict orders against rioting but an army is already mobilised at points where trouble is most likely to occur while scotland yard ls taking every precaution to see tbat business is not in terfered with in london the inevitable paralysis of industry is already making it self felt many concerns having given no tice that tbey cannot keep open long after the strike ls on aurora plans city mart _ aurora 111 feb 28,-a pitblle elty manket will be established i aurora april 3 a ordinance making the market a fla ture will he passed at th regular meei - tag of the city ceunnll meaday evening the mart js to'be w river street ene bf t the principal business thereughfores ilun - dreds 'â€¢Â» farmers are expected to take ad " vantage o the market a pubhe fterse _ market ip be centralled fey lie pity ga s r a geissler german consul under knife rushed to hospital for appendicitis operation little hope of recovery alfred geissler imperial geruiau consul in Chicago was operated ou for acute ap pendicitis . at midnight inst night . four hours after he is violently seized in his home 23 barry avenue mr geissler is said to be in j critical condition litlle hope being entertained for his recovery the attack last night was the return of au affliction that had been thought cured months ago mr geissler had prepared to retire when he was seized dr zim merman 543 grant place was hastily sum moned after making a cursory examination dr zimmerman decided that an immediate op eration was necessary to save the life of mr geissler a private ambulance was summoned and mr geissler was taken to the hospital the operation was per formed by dr zimmerman and dr peter letz of the hospital staff v_j ship babies defy police strikers may disobey authorities orders says haywood lawrence mass feb 28 william d haywood who 1b in charge of the tex tile strike to-night issued an ultimatum to the authorities in which he declared it was imperative thet the children of the idle . workmen be seat out of lawrence to those who are willing to care for them and that if necessary the children will be exported in defiance of the police one hundred of the children will be sent to philadelphia saturday and another dele gation will go to washington friday un der the auspices of representative ber ger miss sears at it again startles san mateo by riding bicycle astride sas francisco feb 28 after pass ing one ot her customary strenuous days miss eleanor bears of boston provided a sartorial surprise for the sedate townfolk of ban mateo by appearing with mrs oscar cooper each astride a bicycle miss sears and mrs cooper were dressed to match in top boots checkered blouser ettes sma.ll riding bote and gray coats this morning found miss bears up et 0 o'clock walking from the t'nrelitn homo to the b-rllngama station and back again a goad four miles n y nurses raise rates , thirty-five dollars a week en all 1 cases now jf_w souk feb 28 1t will cost mere , to be oa the sick list in xew york te , marrow than it did te-day the taa on the [ arrival of the stork will also be mere ex - pensive than ever before in all eases it will cost 35 a week for the services of a trained nurse and it is all blamed on the - high cost of living all the trained nuratm â€¢ in new york bave agreed that in future j thej weuw mÂ»ntl is per dajs kaufman slayers in tears plead with jury women on stand try to save bandits . rabenau swears screams of slain woman frightened him into firing shot blames channel for troubles sobs of prisoners babies add to pathos of court scenes lawyers give up hopes of saving two of accused men such was the pathos and dramatic force of the stories told on the stand in judge kersten's court yesterday by members of the band of automobile robbers who tilled mrs hattie kaufman in front ot her home 665 roscoe street on the night of decem ber 2 . that tears ran down scores of cheeks fred bone_am one of the quartet of young banditti who ls scorned by his com rades bemuse he pleaded guilty alone eat dry-eyed while the other three defendants one after the other walked crlngingly to the witness chair and white avowing their share ln the bandit ride in the stolen auto mobile with its tragic ending wept bitter ly as they told of the shooting down of the young wife at her husband's side â€¢ william roland channell thin faced weak voiced who was graduated from a hip school ana started life as a bank clerk george towhead rabenau sturdy evil looking who admits he fired the fatal stint a-nd john ataoey eldest of the four though himself only twenty-three yearb of age and who was married only a few weeks before the crime each re sorted to tears in his effort to reach the sympathies of the jurors and to save his neck if possible from the hangman's noose girls testify for channell channell brought his mother and two girl sweethearts to court and each of them testified ln his favor and shed tears ra benau nnd btacey had their wives and the former had his young children seated within a few faat of the jury box and their outbursts of emotto-a at timet were heartrending mrs mary bman nnd mrs matilda &-â€¢ mussen mothers of the girl sweethearts of channell took the stand and told with voices that taoke path-llrally what a good young man channel win by na ture and low sorry they were that tbey had refused to let their daughters go out with him in the stolen automobile when if they had accepted bis in-fltatton tho tragedy wonld not bave happened edmund kaufman the widow who as neve_^^^red from thflr h0 4 : ih^enau^plea i to the jury Â§ 1441 told this mr kaufman jj / a there to hold up his hand r i he did so and we would have v ) taken his money without any s ( trouble or harm to him but mrs e ! i kaufman screamed i fired the gun f i t make them run i give you my yj i word gentleman if it was the g last word i ever spoke i wouldn't c have killed that woman if i could fi have helped it i'm a married jj man with children myself when m i found out next morning that the v poor lady was dead i felt awful q bad suffered when the bandits held him ap a%k with his wife on his arm he approached his home and shot her dead before ben realized that she was in danger eat brooew ing in the courtroom with his eyes fiaawl on each witness time and again thes words that fell from one of the oonfesscoft bandits as he sat in the witness e seemed to bring to tho stricken lasoater si keener sense of his tiaÃŸlc loss aad tsf : cmtld not restrain his team verdict is expected to-morrow j the defendants counsel say that au then hope is to move the jury to consider pleas in mitigation of the guilt of two or more of the prisoners the evidence for the defense will be completed to-day and a verdict is expected to-morrow channell on the stand admitted that h stole the automobile from cottage grove avenue and twenty-eighth street there lt had been left standing by iu owner albert michaels he intended to take irva small and ethel magnomen out rill ing in the car but their mothers would not allow the young girls to go out then he got rabennu btacey and boneham to go riding with him he knew they had revolvers and lt was understood that robbery should be done if chance offered channell protests innocence i had so hand in shooting mrs kauf man channell cried raising his right hand and turning his eyes up to the ceil ing i ewear i was in the car all the time i did mt know that the oftwt ace had held up lit and mm ksufman all i beard was a shot from the revolver the rabenau staeey and bonehssn got into tse>t machine and we drove to to south bide it was not until the next day that i knew mrs kaufman was killed towhead rabenau who said be k*4 just twenty-one yeara aid t 1 * t*c_^b _Â» speech rt th jury^j . l gjmsontlnue en 2nd page srrt lurnn j f Chicago and vicintt , wiÂ»\p and colder thursday fridaywa_7 with slowly rising temperature Â» . crate northwesterly winds rt q uange of temperatures yesterday / mt high .- f stenographers quick accurate tidy well grounded lo spelling grammar punctuation ; operators whose letters don't hate to be re written whe attend ta your work and not ta wbat is gains on outside don't have te be cautioned twice against the same mistake make careful notes vt calls and telephone messages da not mind a little work overtime in the rush season efficient stenographers including these who serve the general public make themselves kÃŸowa in the Chicago examiner want ad pages 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